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Enterprise Books of the Month – #FemaleFounders

In celebration of women’s history month we’re kicking off our enterprise books of the month series with solely #FemaleFounders! Have a look below and check out some inspirational, well-written stories from global founders of successful ventures.

Dear Female Founder is a collection of letters from female entrepreneurs who have made $1 billion in revenue. A great and inspirational book, we recommend […]

What does Startup India mean for startups: A (not so) typical journey of an Indian startup

Guest blog from Dr Priyank Tyagi, co-founder Medmonks
From being an aspirant startup destination, India soon became an emergent hub and today is the third largest startup ecosystem in the world. According to Mr Amit Dixit, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone India, outside the US and Europe, India is the number one private capital investment destination on Blacktone’s priority list, even […]

Generate Guest Blog: In 2018, Bet on What’s Better for You

Chief of ZX Ventures, Pedro Earp, tells us how to make this year work for you.
The start of each year always creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to pause, analyze what worked from the past year, and reset their plan of action for the following year.

As Chief of ZX Ventures (a global growth and innovation division within AB InBev), I do […]

Venture Capital: How an LSE Masters student is promoting investment in entrepreneurship

Venture capital involves providing capital and sector expertise to support the activities of new start-up companies. Most of the world’s biggest companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, raised venture funding at some point in order to expand their operations.

Isaac Haq is an LSE student who is working to champion the transformative potential of start-up companies and promote student interest […]

Happy 2018 from Generate!

We hope you’ve all had a wonderful and restful break, and are ready for an exciting and entrepreneurial Lent Term! Generate’s programme this term focuses on social innovation, and we have some really thrilling events coming up. If you’re interested in enterprise, have a look below for a taster of some of our upcoming events.

Meet our new Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Julien Callede of Made.com!

Generate has some big news… We have a new Entrepreneur-in-Residence, read all about him here!

The growth of Generate and our student engagement has been really exciting to watch, and we realised a number of students could benefit with having an experienced entrepreneur on hand to provide them with one-on-one mentoring sessions here at LSE. Excitingly, we are now collaborating […]

LSE Generate Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Panel: open for bookings!

This week’s panel focuses on the potential issues that arise if revolutionising artificial intelligence tools exhibit gender and racial biases.

We will discuss the dangers of existing social inequalities and prejudices being replicated in new ways as an increasing number of decisions affecting our everyday lives are left to automatons – but also the ways in which algorithms present an […]

At Generate we love any opportunity that aims to assist aspiring entrepreneurs, and the Mayor’s Entrepreneur competition is no exception! A funding competition especially for London students, winners receive £20,000 as well as a mentoring package. There’s not just a competition though, City Hall is also running entrepreneurial workshops throughout the year which […]

Generate How To: Business Plans

Have an Entrepreneurial Idea? Need Some Help With Your Business Plan? Look no Further!

So, have a business idea but want some tips on how to translate this into a successful plan? Or maybe you’ve just made it through to the second round of our funding competition and need some advice refining your ideas? Here at Generate we have […]

An Exciting Year Ahead for LSE Generate! Here’s a Lookback at Our Launch Party

A warm welcome to all the new and returning students at LSE! Last Friday we here at LSE Generate held our official launch party to celebrate what is sure to be a busy and exciting year. Highlights included an extremely delicious chocolate cake in the shape of our logo and a much loved silent disco! Thanks to Carl Goodwin […]

A big welcome to LSE from your startup side-kicks!

Hello and a really, really warm welcome from Team Generate! We are super excited to meet the new LSE cohort and introduce you to the Generate family, catch up with current students and bring lots of alumni back into the fold – it’s wonderful to have you all on board and we cannot wait to show off our brand new Generate programme […]

Want to launch your own business? Follow these tips from Silicon Valley entrepreneurs

Hi y’all! We at LSE Generate have just returned from the other side of the pond after a three-day, fully-immersive startup ‘trek’ with a group of entrepreneurially-minded LSE students and recent alumni. The visit to Silicon Valley and the Bay area included some fascinating meetings with LSE alumni startups, incubators, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurial corporates. One of the trekkies, Fannie Delavelle (MSc International Political […]

UBS Future of Finance Challenge 2017

Guest blog by UBS:
The UBS Future of Finance Challenge 2017 is open to startups and established, growing companies that think they can change the way finance works and how banks meet their client’s needs.
The challenges
We have identified four focused challenges where technology can transform how banks work and what we deliver for our clients:

Presenting with confidence – how to pitch

Pitching and presenting successfully involves using a blend of techniques, including applied improvisation and learning practical ways to improve your confidence. Here are a few valuable tips to help you be pitch perfect:
Tip #1: Don’t rush into speaking
Make sure you are well-positioned and standing (or sitting) still before speaking. It’s easy to start speaking before you are stationary and if […]

Generating change: Celebrating women in entrepreneurship

As part of International Women’s Day we thought it would be an idea to have a chat with one of our inspirational women entrepreneurs who has left the LSE family to join the world of the startups and become a successful female innovator!
Introducing Eva
Eva is a graduate of MSc Media and Communications (2015) where she focused on human-computer interaction and […]

Even though the thought of linking up to Australia via a slightly/very dodgy Skype connection at 8am before the LSE IT team arrive in front of a room of 40 students quite honestly fills me with dread, I think it will most definitely be worth the stress given the person who will be speaking on the end of the line.

International ideas: taking your startup abroad

We live in an increasingly globalised world. Unlike what we read in history books and despite recent political rumblings, economies no longer stop at national borders. In some cases such Europe and SE Asia, economies even span beyond continents meaning that goods and services move freely between different national and regional consumer groups. This poses great opportunity for entrepreneurs […]

Could you have what it takes to become a social entrepreneur?

As we’re all aware, our world is a dynamic place. It’s constantly a-changing, becoming ever-more fast-paced and complex by the day. This will come as no surprise to LSE students from every discipline. After all, our university is dedicated to the study of social and political science – sciences which investigate how and why socio-economic realities have changed over time. […]

Get involved in Tata’s social internship scheme

The Tata Social Internship Scheme is a unique partnership between Tata and four leading universities (LSE, the University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley and UC Davis) and is managed and administered by LSE Careers and India Observatory.
Scheme
The primary objective of the Tata social internship scheme is to give students the opportunity to work on social entrepreneurship, environmental development and corporate social […]